Though I think we’re quickly approaching the land of diminishing returns, this is my response to John Schwenkler’s response to my response to his criticism of my argument that segregating...
Anne Applebaum’s latest Slate column on Russia comes with a may-jor caveat: the word superficial is worth repeating here […]. As in, Applebaum concedes that her whole column is strung...
Robert Kagan has a great, long article in The Weekly Standard about how wrong Fukuyama was and how right the other guys (i.e. himself) were about the end of history...
Thru Sonny, Jamie Kirchick reminds me why Bush’s infamous size-up of Putin was such a load of bollocks: I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be...
Noam Scheiber, The Stump: Obama’s strongest response to the Russia situtation may be the same one he’s used in other foreign policy contexts: By focusing on Iraq, we took our...
Camille Paglia, I am noticing slightly belatedly, turned in a pitch-perfect expression of the problem with the ‘let sleeping adulterers lie’ meme in post-Clintonian political commentary: As a Democrat who...
